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- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 4 days ago:
I have yet to see any marketing for Bluesky. The fediverse still takes effort, even if it isn’t necessarily complicated.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 5 days ago:
Bluesky is far more user friendly and that’s why the people are going there. I get it, y’all love federation and ActivityPub, but no one wants to pick an instance, much less read a manifesto on decentralized social media. (Frankly, Lemmy has much of the same issues.)
I have had a Mastodon account since Elmo Muskrat bought Twitter, but it’s practically useless as few outside some specific IT-oriented users are on it. I got Bluesky, and it’s been way better as it attracts a larger variety of people.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
But that is just it. When a commercial enterprise is literally saving copyrighted content and car reproduce it on demand, copyright holders have every right to object. Either use public domain materials and/or license copyrighted materials, or don’t try to make money off AI.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
I didn’t say that at all. I was responding to OP claiming they don’t memorize content at all.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Not many. And generally not book passages or whole NY Post articles. That’s the point. OP claims it tosses the original, but it doesn’t.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
This process is akin to how humans learn by reading widely and absorbing styles and techniques, rather than memorizing and reproducing exact passages. The AI discards the original text, keeping only abstract representations in “vector space”.
Citation needed. I’m pretty sure LLMs have exactly reproduced copyrighted passages. And considering it can created detailed summaries of copyrighted texts, it obviously has to save more than “abstract representations.”
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 6 months ago:
Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh were largely responsible for turning politics into a team sport and convincing Conservatives that all Liberals are evil and that is a Liberal wants it, it must be bad.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
I don’t see why rehabilitation wouldn’t work. It either works or doesn’t. And OP says nothing about being a multiple rapist. Sure, maybe some crimes like murder you forfeit the right to be rehabilitated, but that isn’t what has been charged here.
And, sorry, violent crime can be every bit as intentional and sadistic as rape.
And where is your evidence he was just tossed on the street? He no doubt is being monitored by a parole officer and may very be receiving behavioral modification therapy.
And you are not merely making life “harder” you are making life impossible and pushing him to reoffend.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
So what is this guy supposed to do to support himself?
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
You don’t answer the question about how this person can support themselves. They committed a horrible crime, but have served their time. It isn’t pulling for a rapist, it’s wanting to see someone rehabilitated.
People on one hand say they want to rehabilitate offenders. But when it comes to it, they want to permanently ostracize them, prevent them from working, and prevent them doing the daily tasks of living. You think they are a threat, wait until they are forced to live in the streets starving and see how they will lash out.
And are you seriously defending stabbing someone in a bar fight?
And, no, you don’t have the right to carry a gun on someone else’s property, including your employer’s.
- Comment on Taylor Swift has won the Superbowl! 9 months ago:
I’m a fan, but they are more a Columbus team. Plus, a NCAA natty just can’t compete with a Super Bowl title.
- Comment on Taylor Swift has won the Superbowl! 9 months ago:
Trust me, worse.
- Comment on Taylor Swift has won the Superbowl! 9 months ago:
Cleveland
- Comment on Taylor Swift has won the Superbowl! 9 months ago:
I’ve been waiting my entire life to see my team win a Super Bowl, and freaking Swifties get one their first season.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
Didn’t say you did.
I just want you to realize there are still a ton of us struggling, regardless of what the official numbers say. For a lot of us, or pay has not caught up with inflation, and there is no sign of it happening soon. Necessities continue to go up faster than inflation. I don’t care that TVs are cheaper, I don’t need a new tv, but I do need to eat.
It is more dangerous this November than people realize.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
I have and will have no children
I’ve been graduated from college for 18 years
I’ve never paid an overdraft fee in my life
I am 24 years from being Medicare eligible
I don’t think I’m that unique. Your below policies will help many, but also will not make a difference for many. Sorry I am not pleased being in a perpetual donut hole. Too poor to be comfortable, yet too “rich” to get help.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
I’ve looked. I’ve seen little. But you don’t seem to have looked, since you are so confident they exist but can’t name one. Instead you just call me names and resort to ad hominem attacks.
You seem to be under the impression I am supporting Trump or something. I despise him and every Republican.
But that doesn’t mean I’m not pissed when I see prices skyrocket while my pay only goes up 2% a year.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
I see little policy effort besides what was already done. What proposed policies can you inform me of?
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
So as long as a policy helps some people, we don’t have to try and help more?
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
Yes. You apparently do not. So long as some people do good, everyone else that is struggling can fuck themselves, it seems.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
Well it’s a good thing no one is attempting that?
Oh, what do you call a statement like “The US economy is booming?”
You’re an outlier. Understand that you’re not the center of the universe, please.
Are you going to tell me I am the only one struggling and not seeing wage gains? Do you want to tell me my experience does not matter?
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
Data can absolutely be misleading. Liars, damn liars, and statisticians, as they say. And trying to produce one number that somehow represents everyone will never work, whatever economists want to think.
The fact is many of the super-poor are doing better because government benefits like social security are indexed to inflation, meaning they are actually keeping up.
Personally, my real earnings are down over $10,000 a year. My whole industry has stagnant wages. Don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
I call bullshit. That is not what anyone sees.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
Wealthy shareholders and C-suite executives are trying to squeeze out as much profit as they can. Their boom leads to bust for the rest of us.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
The US Economy is only booming for rich people.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
They would have to break through the screen first. Us Americans prefer not to let bugs in. And if it’s really a worry, there are stops or locks that can be put in. But honestly, it’s nice sometimes. Saved me a locksmith call more than once.
Of course, both windows could just be smashed. You want to tell me European homes are some kind of fortress that thieves can’t get in?
- Comment on When people talk about returning the cart after shopping, does that include putting it in a corral, or do you have to take it all the way to the front of the store to be a good person? 9 months ago:
Why have a corral if that’s not good enough? Of course the corral is fine, provided you actually put it in and not just in the general vicinity.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
Or, know, we could just crack open the bottom (in the case of the popular double hung, the top) of the window a little bit. But it is-3c (yes, we Americans understand metric) where I am now, so I have no interest in doing that. No Gulf Stream keeping us relatively mild in winter over here.
Listen, you want to brag about health care, public transit, intercity high speed rail, or historic buildings, fine, you got us there. But stop with the air if superiority about everything else.
- Comment on Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? 9 months ago:
Have it set to a sensor, same as the lights
Given how often the lights go out at work while I’m taking a dump, this isn’t the best idea.
- Comment on Leaving the bidet on "feminine" mode is the female equivalent of leaving the toilet seat up. 10 months ago:
But I like seeing my turds circle the drain